Locked Non-K CPU Overclocking, i3-12100, i5-12400 & i7-12700

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Intel Should Have Led With This! Non-K Overclocking

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[sultanofsick]

Man this takes me way back to my very first builds in high school when overclocking was primarily done this way, adjusting the base clocks instead of the multiplier. And there was a LOT of headroom to be gained. My first real build was a socket A mobile chip in a desktop that I got something like an 80% overclock on, with a $15 basically stock-replacement cooler. So many nights spent endlessly booting, adjusting frequency/timing/whatever by 1 unit at time, and running 3Dmark 2001 and 03 searching for every last frame.

[ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

AIDA 64 bugs out when you raise the BCLK on 12th gen.

[BetterBenTV]

This reminds me of the start of the core2duo era where you could overclock the low end cpus massively.

[mattck]

Got my 12100F at 5.33Ghz core, 4.8 cache, 6500 Cl30. It's such a little monster 😂
The issue with the Strix B660-F/G wasn't so much the cost of the board but the cost of the DDR5 they needed on top of that.
I got lucky and picked up 2x8gb OEM DDR5. The B660-F and i3 12100F just took a little waiting to catch a good deal.

[nukedathlonman]

Very nice board - good job MSI (and kodos to them for allowing this pre-view).

[QuentinStephens]

Very interesting. I do have one question: you use CL14 RAM but that's super-premium memory so I wonder how performance would change with more budget CL 18 RAM? After all, someone at the budget end isn't going to be buying that CL14 RAM. 16 GB DDR4-3600-C18 RAM is £65 on OCUK but DDR4-3600-C14 isn't even listed at any capacity and the cheapest fast C14 kit is DD4-3200 at £190 for 32 GB (and not actually in stock).

[chairs-dimension]

If the motherboards end up being more premium anyway, would this really be a good alternative to just buying a b660 motherboard & a 12700k? The price difference between it and the 12700 is only around $30, but I'd imagine the PCIE5 variants of B660 boards would be a bigger step up in price overall.

Maybe for the 12400 where there is no K SKU it might be viable, but if you buy that are you really trying to crank the CPU frequency all the way up?

[JetBen]

That's how OC used to work on non-K model before Sandybridge ^^

[kiburi]

It's really great to see how we come back to old school overclocking with significant performance gain. Though with the energy crisis we have today, those 100+ watts increase will definitely take a toll on the monthly bill, considering it's mostly those budget consumers who will have a real interest in this. I don't think overclocking is a viable option nowadays for budget consumers.

[chillhour]

Damn This reminds me of the core 2duo days, good times for budget builders back in the day

[jestah]

Kudos to msi on this one. I have to say msi are by far my favourite brand motherboard because of things like this! I have a z490 tomahawk and recently found out that this board up/side graded to 11th gen cpu has gen 4 support for nvme drives, as they spent the extra money making it compatible when many other brands simply did not bother.

[EvL--_--]

The image quality is so good, you can literally see Steve getting older and more wrinkles with every video

[FATBOY_.]

OMG...that overclocking of 12400 in games is insane.

[Tutku]

Would be nice to see a comparison how these non-K CPUs stack up against OCed K models.

[ShimejiiGaming]

A Sneaky Beaky Peak! Glad to see you enjoying making the content :D Hopefully it just doesnt get patched over and "fixed"

[MrTanker]

Great stuff....but how long before Intel strong-arms MSI into knee-capping this with a BIOS or Microcode update?

[ExalyThor]

Finally, some good old overclocking content from HUB. Some 12600K overclocking content would be cool to see as well. It's not as close to the limit as the 12900k, it might just be worth bothering.

[GewelReal]

This was so fun during Skylake era as well

[zalankhan]

Damn, The core i3 is now even more Impressive.

[yeetus]

Im glad I cheaped out on my i5 12400F by pairing it with an H610 board and 3200 CL16 memory. Definitely getting this board when it releases and faster ram.